>>725956516
It's a metaphor for running out of idea
I knew the good times were over when they announced Elden Ring would be open world

>>725956647
For me it was the first leaked gameplay of Elden Ring, there was nothing but the name floating around at the time so we really didn't know what ER would even be, given they had deviated from the souls formula with Bloodborne, Sekiro and Deracine. Turns out it was Dark Souls 4.

>>725956981
I believe that they would stop with creating 1:1 souls clones if they weren't so popular. they are cheap to produce, sell like hotcakes and it's what normies want. why bother with evolving your formula the way you did with bloodborne and sekiro when dark souls 5 will be named goty anyway? normalfags and autists here will crucify you for having this opinion.

>>725957272
>Why evolve your formula?
Elder Ring is literally the evolution of the Souls formula

>>725957438
devolution*

>>725957438
>evolution of the Souls formula
yes, and it works as dark souls 4, when you look at it as another fromsoft game then it's more similair to a reheated lasagna - look at sekiro instead, most of the core gameplay works the same way as in other fromsoft games, it also introduces and mixes up so many new, fresh things that many people wouldn't even call it a souls-like. THAT is true evolution of the (fromsoft) formula. meanwhile elden ring reintroduces one of the demigods as the final boss of its dlc, gives him the movesets of godfrey, mohg and pontiff sulyvahn and congratulates itself on a job well done.

>>725958276
i mean, i doubt they'll ever move away from stamina based combat/movement considering they've been doing it since the 90s, when miyazaki wasn't even a thought in fromsoft's mind.

>>725956516
>le no tutorials
>le item-based storytelling
>le ebin runbacks
bravo, miyazaki-sama, i kneel